Book excerpt: Excerpt from Inventory of the County Archives of Indiana, Vol. 46: La Porte (La Porte) The survey of local public records in Indiana was instituted on February 19, 1936, as a part of a nation-wide undertaking under the supervision of Dr. Luther H. Evans. Samuel J. Kagan, Archivist in the Indiana State Library, was assigned to lead the project as State Director. In the beginning the Survey was closely associated with the Federal Writers' Project. On September 23, 1936, The Historical Records Survey was nominally as well as factually made independent of the Writers' Project. In general, it has from its very inception acted as a separate and independent unit of Federal Project No. 1. The inventory proper is preceded by a number of introductory essays to enlighten the reader concerning facts and events forming the back ground and basis of the records. The entries for the record series are carried in consecutive numbering for the county. The bureaus are arranged in functional order: Governing boards; major administrative offices; judicial Offices; and financial, election, educational, health, public welfare, engineering, and other groups. Whenever applicable, natural groupings under separate headings are made within the bureau, and the entries are arranged thereunder also according to functional sequence. An extensive index will aid the reader to locate records with a minimum of inconvenience and effort. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.